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Annihilation, Uzumaki, Horns, The Terror, and more make up our list of the best horror books of the last 20 years.

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Eli Roth is partnering with Insight Editions to launch horror-inspired books through The Horror Section, with the new ...

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"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." There’s a long-standing theory that in times of real-world strife, readers lose their appetite for ...